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Sun, 14 Oct 2007 05:23:10 GMT

So, project is over and done. Thank goodness.

I'm not feeling particularly brilliant, because I've gotten very little sleep the last few nights (no sleep at all on thursday night, short to average sleep on friday night and very short last night), so I think I might have to have a bit of a nap today if I actually want to make it to this evening without falling asleep (though I'll probably be fine even without one)... but I'm feeling infinitely better than I was on Thursday night. :)

Only thing left due now is Studio, which is still huge, but two weeks away, so I have time. And after that it's holidays for four months! Yey!

Five hours until Josh Groban concert!

*dies from excitement*

Oh. My. God.

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:18:57 GMT

I could kill whoever thought up having assignments that were worth 80% of a class's mark.

Seriously. I've been working almost continuously since Tuesday morning (save sleeping and eating), and I'm still less than 3/4 of the way done. I feel positively queasy about having to do the rest of the work.

So damn sick of drawing.

Die. Die. Die.

Also, my cat is an annoying, clingy little thing. Good god, cat. Please do something other than follow me around and lay on the work I'm trying to do!

And my eyes are dead. Seriously. I struggled to read the McDonalds menu tonight. All this close-up Uni work... I feel like I'm slowly but surely destroying my eyes' ability to focus on anything further away than a computer screen or piece of paper.

Uagh.

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:00:00 GMT

Stupid, stupid me. There are region codings on ps2 games.

I should have double-checked, but I swear it didn't say anything ANYWHERE. And even on the back it's on the tiniest writing down the bottom.

GRAAH.

Now I'm going to have to go sell it on eBay for like a tenth of the price. >:(

Ugh.

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:04:56 GMT

My internet, for some strange reason, seems to be operating at dial-up speed. At least I think so. It may possibly be slower. How do people live with it being sooo sloooooooow!?

In any case, I'm in the habit of bringing up Freecell whenever I have to wait for anything, so I played about ten games of it (of which I have lost about one). So I moved on to Spider Solitaire, which I played enough times to win the difficult version. Currently my 'win rate' is about 7%, though I suspect at least half of that percent was artifically pushed up by re-doing the same winning game three or four times. ^^

But yesh, I finally won it! With a score of 1036 and 264 moves. :)

And, having finally got LJ to open, I've run out of things to do. Half the games I normally play probably won't work 'cause of the internet, and of the other ones... I've mostly finished Neverwinter Nights (all I have to do is finish the Kingmaker module, which I'm sure I've done before and am currently doing with a not-so-great cleric. I'd probably have to start again with something more substantial if I am to actually finish it). So nah.

I can't do any studio, because I've done pretty much all I can do on trace and I'm starting on AutoCAD, which I don't have on this computer. Though I plan to fix that soon. As long as dad is willing to pay for the bloody thing. Expensive programs should die. At least there's a student version which is less than 10% of the standard price. But it still manages to be expensive.

Hmmm. It's strange, but I feel fairly motivated as far as Studio goes. I'm not sure whether it's that I feel like I have a decent scheme that is actually worth putting some effort into, or purely because I am procrastinating like hell on this 1000-word review I have due on Friday. I have all the material (I hope) that I require, so all I need to do it sit down and thrash out three or four pages.

But I really cannot bring myself to do it. I tried, the other day, and spent two hours re-arranging the pictures to create a lovely design-y strip down the side. No actual content.

Tomorrow I'll do it. I have three or so hours in the afternoon before work, so I can get a bit done then, and finish it up after work. Easy.

I hope.

On another topic, this keyboard is starting to die. It's doing it sneakily, but I'm noticing. One day, for no apparent reason, the space button stopped working properly (I'd hit it and it wouldn't type out anything, so I'd hit it a bit harder and it would give me about six spaces in a row for a single tap). I was going to go in and get it replaced (it's still under warranty, because my last keyboard of the same make did a similar thing with the 'a' button, I think it was. Must be a glitch in this particular make.), but apart from that one day, it's been working just fine. So, I don't know.

But just the other day, I noticed something odd with the backspace button. It works fine, until you go into Word. And then it starts behaving oddly. Regular backspacing is fine, but then when you try and highlight something and delete the whole block, it just unselects it. :/ Although, come to think of it, it may not be the backspace button. I notice the same thing when I've got something highlighted and I try and type over it (and delete it) or paste something. The only thing that works is to highlight and 'delete' it. Maybe some setting was changed. Anyone have any suggestions?

So yeah. That's that. Otherwise it works fine. :)

Um.

I'm going to continue to procrastinate by doing this Meme that I'm inventing from that featured musicshuffle group.

Take your iTunes/iPod/MP3 Player/Whatever and put it on shuffle. Make a comment about the first ten. No cheating!

1. 'Rock Your Body Rock' - Ferry Corsten
Hmm. Not too bad a track, largely just beat and about two lines of lyrics. This'd be one of the ones left over from my sister's massive playlist, which I stole and adapted.

2. 'King of the Golden Hall' - from LOTR: TTT
Ooh. Since I've been lazy and haven't actually uploaded my Lord of the Rings CDs onto iTunes, this is just about the only track I actually have on here. The Lord of the Rings music is always nice to listen to, and the Rohan theme was always a favourite. :)

3. 'Unforgettable' - Nat King Cole + Natalie Cole
This is that track where they used the old recording of his voice and got her to sing it and put the two together, so it sounds like a duet. Sweet. :)

4. 'All the Love in the World' - The Corrs
I love the Corrs. They're so pretty. And singalongable. ^^

5. 'Voice Inside My Head' - Dixie Chicks
I'm quite used to country music, considering dad plays it a lot, but there isn't a whole lot of it I'd actually go ahead and listen to myself. Dixie Chicks are an exception, though. Their lyrics are thoughtful, and the sound is perhaps slightly 'poppier' than other country, so perhaps that explains it. This is a nice one from their newest CD.

6. 'She's Out of My Life' - Josh Groban
Hahaha. I knew a Josh Groban one had to turn up sooner or later. :P I have enough of them. This one's from the special edition of his second CD, and isn't one of my favourites, but it's not bad. Fairly simple, in comparison to the more dramatic songs he does. :)

7. 'Graduation' - Vitamin C
Ehh, I remember this one. Used waay too much when it was popular, but I suppose it has a nice message and I don't really mind listening to it.

8. 'Working Class Hero' - John Lennon
Hm. I like some of John Lennon's stuff, but I don't really like this one. Just slow.

9. 'Home' - Micheal Buble
Another yay. :) I've really started to listen to him lately, and I adore lots of songs on the new CD. His voice is just so smoooth. I'm even starting to like the old classics that I wouldn't normally ever listen to. :) This one in particular I liked instantly, then got tired of because of excessive radio overplayage, and now that I haven't heard it in a while, I'm starting to like it once again. Sweet.

10. 'Us' - Rockstar INXS
Agh! Sister's influence again. She's got all of the songs that any of the Rockstar contestants ever sang, (both seasons) and while I didn't mind them at first, my iTunes has a perverse preference for these songs, so it seems like I'm hearing them every second song. (Clearly not, but the fact that one showed up here, out of 2000 other possible choices.....) Might start deleting them soon.

And that's all!

Hm, I was hoping for a Keane one. Or RENT. Oh well, you can't have everything. ^^ I might have to re-do this sometime. :)

And since that successfully took up an hour of my time, I think I shall go to sleep so I can get up bright and early tomorrow! (Joy.)

Eek!

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:22:54 GMT

So, driving today was rather traumatic.

I didn't hit anyone, thank goodness, though if I'd had to drive much longer it may have been a distinct possibility, considering the way it was going.

So, since I was heading to Uni by 9, I took the 'long route' (which avoids the freeway/rush hour thus is faster), and they've been doing a bit of fixing one of the roads up - putting new kerbs and median islands in, etc. But I guess they're not completely done, because as I was driving down there today, I noticed a big hole in the side of the road. I avoided the first one, but didn't think it was that bad, because I wasn't paying as much attention when the second one showed up, so I drove right over it, and it went CLUNK! If the car hadn't kept going I would have been sure I'd just lost a wheel or something....and it just about gave me a heart attack. Honestly, all they would have to do is put a witches hat or something at the end of the pothole. Ehhh. In any case, I have a phobia of potholes now. (Or at least for the next few days!) I scared myself about three times on the way back home. ><

That was incident enough in the morning, but when I left, and went back home via the same way, I encountered even more trouble! Firstly, it was about 3:30, so the tradies are just getting off work, and on this street I drive along, it's a single lane that splits into two lanes at each of the two or three traffic lights along the road. Both those lanes have the option of turning or heading straight, so after each light, the two lanes merge back into a single lane.

Now, I was at the front of the right lane, both having a few cars lined up. When the light turns green, I start a little slowly, and let the car beside me go first. I'm all the way at the point where the road merges back together when all of a sudden I hear this roar of an engine to my left, and this guy in a ute speeds past me.

I'm a fairly passive driver, so I just pass him off as a wierdo and let him go. Whatever. I also choose to stay some distance behind him, because on the flat back of his ute was a big pile of sand, and a wobbly cement mixer 'tied down' by ropes that were flapping generously in the wind. So purely because I didn't want to have something land on my car, I was a ways back.

He was going the same way I was, and about five minutes later, I see him (currently tailgating a car), decide to change lanes. Unfortunately, there happens to be a pair of black 4WDs beside him. But oh, no matter! He changes lanes so rapidly that the back car has to veer up onto the kerb and brake pretty severely in order to avoid getting hit. Thankfully there was nobody directly behind him.

I just sort of gaped. And then watched as this guy zigzagged between two lanes of traffic five or six times in order to get perhaps 50m ahead.

What a moron. I half expected to encounter an accident a little later down the road.

Anyway. A little later on, in stop and go traffic, I'm looking at the cars to my right, and a pair of them seem rather close together. As I drive past, I swear, the bullbar on the 4WD was about ten centimeters away from the back of the car in front. O.o

I really don't know. Just glad I didn't nearly hit anyone.

Oh, and there was this white car with a pink 'Blonde' licenceplate, put on upside-down. :P Although the kid in the front seat had a little fluffy white dog in his arms which had its head stuck out of the window, so I hope has the sense not to jump out after something.

Gehhh.

Not driving any more today, I think.

Although I have to pick up little brother at about 8. :/

Hmm.

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:06:55 GMT

I had a wierdly sort of positive day today.

Firstly, I had an overwhelmingly positive crit today in Studio.

Now, you can't actually understand what that's like until you've done this course. Most of the time you stand up there, display your work and listen while they suggest 294375636274 ways to fix it. Naturally, it usually leaves you sort of dejected and without much desire to work on it. But you do, and you do as many improvements as you can, and then show it to them three days later to have them go, hmm, nah, go back to where you were last time and approach it from a different angle.

Frustrating, to say the least.

But this week, and to a lesser extent this studio in general... is just such a relief. I don't know, but our studio lady is pretty nice (both of them are), but beyond that, she's clear, understandable and helpful. Normally, they do something like tell you to 'interrogate the formal aesthetics of the site and the interaction with the public and use that to inform your idea and resolve your concept', and you just go 'huh?'. I actually understand that phrase, now, but after nearly two years of this I still would have very little clue as to how to actually /do/ that. Which is what it all comes down to, really.

And so I'm used to studios being, for the most part, frustrating and confusing. And I'm not a greatly motivated person, so more than once I've wondered why I was doing this to myself - usually answering because semester fees are too exorbitant to just change willy-nilly and then I'd have to answer to dad if I did.

Anyway, the point being, studio lady is helpful and informative, and though she has a tendancy to ramble on for half an hour on a complete tangent, they're /interesting/ tangents. But this morning, when I brought my project in, both of them were seriously glowing about it. So. Wierd. Naturally, things to do, but only minor tweakages, which is slightly absurd, six weeks into the 13-week semester. Yeah, I don't know. They both seemed really impressed with the leap I'd made (I swear, it was mostly the tutor's idea and I just followed through, but apparently 'I made crucial decisions that've really added a strength to this project'). Given, my initial idea was crap, and stuck in a box, but regardless.

Oh well.

In summary, good, but wierd.

And then, later on, I found something that made me laugh waaay too much:

I had work in the evening, and that was normal... Oh, and Steph, I'm sure you know already, but the new Micheal Hoeye book is out, as well as the new Holly Black.

Go Hermux Tantamoq, watchmaker!

And then again, after work, wierdly positive, or rather wierdly amusing, this guy at Maccas was trying rather too hard to impress. Struck up a conversation about UWA (noticed my student card) and when I told him I was doing architecture, he was all like, oh, do you come down to the Ref much at all?

I didn't ask him what he did, because I didn't really care, but also because I doubted some guy working at Maccas (domain of 16-year-old employees) in Joondalup (about an hour away) was a UWA student. He probably knew about the Ref from his big brother. Or the UWA Expo a few weekends ago.

In any case, I was sort of amused.

And now I'm home. :)

And time to go play this game which is quite rapidly strangling my computer (it crashes at least three or four times every time I play the game), and yet... it's fun. So I'll play it for a little while longer, anyway. :)

So let's find a bar, so dark we forget who we are...

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:29:34 GMT

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Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:38:04 GMT

:)

So, got my copy of Harry Potter and finished it about 28 hours later. Was fairly pleased with it, all in all, and I've done all the griping required with Steph, so I'm all good. :)

Also finished Renegade Magic, by Robin Hobb, which I grabbed just before we left, and finished about a half of while we were away, and the other half this week, before and after reading Harry Potter. It was interesting, and although I don't think it was my favourite book of hers - for goodness sakes, the main character spends three quarters (or more) of the book living in the body which his other half controls. So, essentially, it's all observation. I suppose it's managed well enough, it wasn't boring or anything. But still. :P

I enjoyed the ending. Left me with quite a smile on my face. Aw. Just aw.

Also finished the other two books in the Axis Trilogy on our trip. They were enjoyable. :)

And that's my reading done in the last month or so. I need to find something else to read, but at the same time I don't. I still have NWN to finish, and I suppose I should see if the people on WoW even remember me. ^^

And getting FF (somethingorother) would be good. Always wanted to try that, and now that brother has a PS3... :)

OMG.

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:42:42 GMT

I am so deprived.

I /still/ haven't got a copy of the new Harry Potter, and it doesn't look like I can get hold of a copy for another 6 and a half hours. Purely because nothing's open at 3am in the morning. But STILL!

Aagh.

Must. Resist. Spoilers.

(Bad, bad firebyrd. Your entry is eyeing me.)

Anyway, I have no intention of sleeping until that point (and certainly not for a while after), so I shall fill my time with explaining how I'm in this terrible predicament to begin with.

Well, I've been on holiday. But more about this later.

The way our flights were scheduled was that we'd leave Helsinki, Finland, around 6pm (local), fly to London, have about two and a half hours before leaving there around 10-ish local time, then fly 12 hours to Singapore. Then an hour and a half there, and then on to Perth, to arrive just about midnight here.

Well, seeing as we were leaving London approximately two hours before Harry Potter was about to come out, I thought, "Wouldn't it be lucky if the flight was delayed just two hours and then I could get the book and start reading it during the whole massive stretch to Singapore!"

This sounds like a good wish, no?

But alas, my friends, be careful what you wish for.

We arrive at the airport in Finland nice and early, around 4-ish, like good passengers. However, we notice that a flight heading to London Heathrow, scheduled for 2pm, has not yet left. Hrm, we say.

Then, sure enough, about half an hour later, our own flight is delayed, and pushed back about two hours.

No no no no. Bad powers that be. You delayed the wrong flight.

Even if this one gets in two hours late we would still have just enough time to catch the next one.

But anyway, so we're in the airport for about four hours, playing cards and such. We learn that everything at Heathrow's been out of whack because of bad bad weather, (some of you may have heard? I think I might check the news after this) and fair enough, is better to be in the aiport for extra long than circling above an airport with 30,000 other planes slowly running out of fuel. (I think I saw a movie about this, once. And those things never seem to end well.)

Anyway, so we get on the plane and head to Heathrow.

We arrive, with about 30 minutes to spare, and, for those of you who know Heathrow, we landed in Terminal 1 and had to go all the way to Terminal 4. Or the other way round. In any case, we had to get to the furthest possible point from where we were. This is like a 10-minute bus ride, (and that's the quick way) plus, on the way, we get pulled over for an extra-special extra-slow extra-detailled bag search. Most likely because we looked like we were in a hurry.

No wonder people find travel stressful.

So, we make it to the right Terminal, right about the time we are supposed to be departing, only to find masses of people and our flight not even up on the screens. Hrm. Not entirely unexpected, being Heathrow, but still stressful.

After frantically wandering the airport looking for staff of any kind for about five minutes, we line up at a very busy British Airways help desk, wait for another ten to fifteen minutes while people rant at the staff that "if I don't get to my hotel in Rio, that's 500 pounds a night I've lost' and so on. Naturally, the airport people can't do much about this, but were being very polite and patient to everyone, so I made sure to smile and say thankyou after they'd helped us work out what the status of our flight was, which turned out to be delayed, of course, and was looking like it'd be up in about an hour and a half after scheduled.

So, we wouldn't miss our flight. That's good, really. But neither would we be there to get the book, either. That's bad. Although looking at those stores, none of them were going to be open at midnight, either. So, no matter.

At this point am a little frazzled and don't mind much. Thankfully parents have invested in Qantas Club memberships, allowing them to use (and bring a guest each - us kids - into) the appropriate lounge at most airports. (Unfortunately, we couldn't get into one in Helsinki on account of having the wrong membership, so unfortunately we couldn't use it when we could have best utilised it. But oh well.) So we got in there, which was pretty much as crowded as the rest of the airport, but at least there was some seating available, which was nice.

So we collected and hoarded the available cookies and had stuff to drink, talked with fellow bored passengers and listened to and sympathised with the poor staff who were getting no new information and were still working an hour or two after their shifts had ended. That can't have been fun.

But eventually we were called to board, and eventually took off just after midnight.

The flight to Singapore wasn't too bad - I slept for 8 or 9 hours, giving me 3 or 4 hours to waste, which I mostly spent reading and listening to the in-flight 'radio'.

We arrived in Singapore about five minutes after our next flight was supposed to go, but they held it up because there were a fair few of us transferring. Unfortunately, the gates were really close to each other, and far away from the shops, so there was no chance to quickly quickly find a bookstore and grab a copy of HP, so back onto the plane we went.

Five hours later, we touched down in Perth, 1:30am local time.

All went fine until we got to the baggage carousel. We seem to have abominable luck with bags. Ours always come out one of the last ones, despite whether they've been tagged 'Priority', or have to have been one of the last bags put on because of a late transfer.

But, well, this time our bags didn't come out at all.

Sigh.

We figured they must have been left in London, amidst all that chaos, so we did the whole form-filling out and whatever, hopefully they'll get to us tomorrow. Or today. It's so confusing.

So, off we went without any bags.

Nothing was open at the Perth airport as we headed out, so alas, my last chance of grabbing Harry Potter went by.

We made it home by about 3am, and I figure my best chance of beating jetlag is just to stay up until about 6 or 7pm this evening and get back into regular time that way.

Unfortunately, uni starts on Monday, so hopefully our bags will get here (otherwise I'll have no clothes) and my sleeping plans work (otherwise I'll be half-asleep driving to uni).

Though, really, we may have used up all our luck in Helsinki by losing one of our cameras one day, then retracing our steps to have it returned to us at a store called Marimekko, before losing our other camera the very next day, and sure enough, having it turn up the day after that at the very same store.

Anyway, I'll wrap it up here because I'm cold and had better go have a shower, but I know I've learned a lesson here!

Be careful what you wish for, or the Weather and Airport gods may just conspire with the Harry Potter powers that be and prevent you from getting the book for at least 27 hours!

Also, I am very very glad that, if nowhere else, the city is open on Sundays. Otherwise I would have to wait until Monday. And I don't think I could resist the spoilers that long. ^^

Also also, I've missed my iTunes. Must procure myself new mp3 player with much haste!

Yes.

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:52:55 GMT

So, it's almost 9pm, the night before we leave for Europe.

I haven't begun to pack.

And what am I doing about it? Posting on my livejournal.

Yep.

My.

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:46:57 GMT

So, apparently one of the 'nicest, most influential, well liked and talented' wrestlers in the WWE went and killed his wife, son and then himself.

All I can say is, what does that say about just about everyone else in that industry?

Never did care for that sort of show, but it's scary stuff.

And Little Brother, who is a big fan, is understandably shaken.

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:46:40 GMT

Okay, Internet is finally back. Telstra did something stupid with our billing system and then apparently had done it to heaps of other people too, making the internet stop working, so they were days behind in fixing it. But it's back now, which makes me happy. :)

Also, on the way home today, they played 99 Luftballons by Nena on the radio. In german! The entire song! It made me smile. :) Go 94.5.

On the down side, it's cold. And I have a cold.

And I'm working the next five days. Yeck.

Neeeed sleep. ^^

No matter, can catch up with sleep on the plane to Europe. :D

7 days until we leave! And see sister dear again!

Oh, and quick question for aforementioned sister: What, exactly, is a trague? :/

Hokay. :)

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:33:29 GMT

IF YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I want to know 28 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked, never liked each other, or if we already know everything about each other. I really don't. You are obviously on my list, so let me know with whom I'm friends!

ALL COMMENTS SCREENED FOR PRIVACY!

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song or Album:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarkey) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and bake a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

Happy Birthday to me!

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:34:57 GMT

For another ten minutes or so, anyway. :)

So, it was my 20th birthday today, and I got pressies. Lots of chocolate. :) And two giant freckles! Two!

Heehee. Thanks guys. :)

So, everyone came over in the afternoon and stayed until 9:30-ish. It's interesting, though, for some reason it seems to be that my birthday is pretty much the one event that our whole high school group actually attend. ('Whole' being a relative term). It's probably just a good time of year: right after exams, when people have spare time for the first time in months, and those living overseas come home for the northern hemisphere summer break. But for some reason, those who don't show up any other time seem to attend this one event fairly regularly. For which I'm thankful. :)

Interesting conversations tonight, though. I've got some musing to do, I think. ^^

Holidays at last!

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:39:05 GMT

Whew.

Exam this morning. Was about 15 mins late because I could not find the room, and people I asked kept directing me in opposite directions. :( But I found it eventually, the supervisor lady didn't seem openly annoyed that I was late, and I finished within the allotted time, so it's all good. :)

Now that's over, I actually have holidays!

Will be working a few more shifts, plus I need to organise some sort of get-together for my birthday on Sunday... Just a casual cards and boardgames and pizza sort of occasion, methinks. :)

And in the hours of spare time, I plan to rearrange my room, get my hair cut, finish NWN (after how many years of getting halfway through and abandoning it?), and... yeah. Then travel to Europe. :)

And that's that!

ETA:

Oh. And almost forgot. Here's your proof, dreamlance. :D

:D :D :D

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:35:30 GMT

Wahooo!

Josh is coming to Perth and I have tickets!

Not /front row/, but fourth row back and pretty much in the middle!

*squees*

And another positive, now that this is out of my system, I might actually post something interesting in my journal for a change. We'll see. :)

Relief.

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:08:06 GMT

Finally. Folio is in and done.

I now have permission to sleep.

Now I have about a month of holidays (ignoring one fairly insignificant exam) in which I can resume my hobbies.

And, with a little motivation, get stuff other than Uni done. :)

Complications...

Sun, 20 May 2007 11:21:15 GMT

Hmm, I should have guessed it wouldn't have been that easy.

Turns out the Melbourne concert is the Friday night before the Saturday AFL Grand Final. In other words, getting flights and/or accommodation is going to be hell. Even if we go about organising it now. :(:(

Sydney won't be much better (for the flights, at least), because half the flights go through Sydney on their way to Melbourne.

So, I'm either going to have to do some serious convincing to get parentals to spend the extra - we could go to the Grand Final, too! - or fork out about twice as much as I was expecting and go with just me and Mom (or a friend). :/

Mraaah, it was all going so well, too!

Can't really go to Adelaide and Brisbane, because they're a week or two afterwards and I doubt very much that I will have a weekend to spare only two or three weeks before folio. AS it is, it's going to be a challenge to fit everything around it.

*pout*

I will go - I must! Some way, or another.

Sat, 19 May 2007 13:55:40 GMT

Wow. Surprised.

Somehow I thought that when I suggested that me and mom go to Melbourne for a weekend to go see Josh Groban, she'd be like, hmmm, maybe, we'll have to see, that'll be expensive, etc, etc. Instead, she goes, ooh, that sounds like fun!

So I was like :). This may yet happen!

And then, today, I oh-so-subtly mentioned that some part of this might become a birthday present, Mom said that she mentioned it to Dad, and he's like, yeah, we could all go! Not nessecarily to the concert. But to Melbourne. A four-hour plane flight away. For the weekend.

Naturally, I was like YAY!

Yes, it's still in the maybe stages, but still, one cannot really hope for a better initial response. :D And, and, us all going will almost certainly mean that I won't have to pay for the flight and accommodation myself. :D

Whee!

Excited now. :D

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Fri, 18 May 2007 08:53:00 GMT

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Tue, 15 May 2007 09:43:36 GMT

Eee, Adelaide and Brisbane shows as well, now!

Pleeeeeeeese come to Perth!

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Sat, 05 May 2007 10:33:12 GMT

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Fri, 04 May 2007 09:23:23 GMT

Josh Groban is coming to Australia in September/October!

Although only Melbourne and Sydney shows, as far as I know. :(

I would totally fly over there to go see a concert of his, but sister darling isn't here, so I can't drag her along. :(

And I doubt anybody else would be willing to spend that sort of money... Though that is plenty of time to start brainwashing. And maybe I can convince someone to go over for the shopping... *shifty eyes*

:P

But ugh, it'll be in the middle/end of semester, which means even going away for a weekend will be hard to manage.

But maybe, just maybe!

*sigh*

Myron, huh?

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:10:20 GMT

Well. We'll see if this changes. ^^

Right. LJ. I have one of those.

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:44:14 GMT

Well, after a friend went and lent me the Veronica Mars season one DVD, I am officially addicted. Since I haven't really had a chance to get season one back to her for the last week or two (and thus get season two.. :P), I went net-searching, and lo and behold, season two and three are all online. :D Given, with french subtitles, but nevertheless. So, I went and watched them. 22 episodes of season two + 14 episodes of season three = 36 episodes x 3 parts each = 108 videos in the last week. Understandably, I completely blew out our usage limit and thus we are stuck with dialup-speed internet for the remainder of the month, but :).

So, I will have to wait 'til next week (= new month) before I can watch episode 15, which as far as I'm aware is the latest. :(

I have been neglecting WoW, so the people there must be wondering where I've gotten to. Though, I had my reasons. First I somehow managed to kill my graphics/video card (again), so I had to wait like 2 or 3 weeks before the fixit guy came out to fix that. Then, by that time I was watching VM, so.

Things only tend to hold my interest for a limited time, anyway, before something new and exciting comes along, so I'm surprised I managed to get to lvl 61, as it were. You never know, I might play some more once I've run out of VM to watch, but I can't understand these people who have been playing the same game for 2+ years. How do they not get terribly bored?

It was the same story with the MUSHs, really. Awesome people, lots of fun, but then something else ends up more interesting and I sort of just fade out of it. And forget how fun it was, so I don't really miss it. Besides, people move quickly online. ^^

But ah well.

Uni is coming along. Today's lecture was unusually useful, though scary, too, at the level of detail and officiousness required in any given drawing. I missed the morning tute, though, meaning I didn't meet up with my group partner yet again and we have thus lost another week on getting a move on our presentation. That reminds me, I need to email my tutor so I can contact her some other way.

Tomorrow is ANZAC day, so yay, one of only two public holidays in the entire year the Uni recognises. I have three massive things just sort of looming in the 'I-still-have-plenty-of-time-left' future, and as such I have not yet started, when I most definitely should be getting a move on on at least /one/ of them. Studio is in the sort of "dwell on ideas" mode, which I have no patience with and cannot force myself to sit for hours exploring ideas (because I can usually come up with plenty of things in the first ten seconds and then hit a brick wall). This is my downfall, I know, but that's how it is. I have my essay and presentation both due in two weeks time, on the same day, so there's no way I'm getting them both done the weekend before. Thus, the perfect opportunity to get them done, or at least hacked at, is tomorrow. And yet.

On the upside, I believe I have just one other assignment for the rest of the term (ignoring exams), so this is looking manageable. Today, watching from the relative safety of two or three weeks away, anyway.

I think that's about it, really.

Hm, there should be something on TV right about now. See yah!